Worksite Wellness Program Screening And Worksite Wellness Program Intervention Programs

Health screenings are important programs to identify chronic conditions in their early stages. Once identified, wellness intervention

programs can help prevent a disease from progressing. Working with local hospitals and other businesses, you can get information on

offering evaluation and intervention programs that might improve your employees’ health and save your company money in

absenteeism, treatment for disease complications, and reduced productivity. Below are some ideas to help get you started.

Based upon your Employee Needs & Interest Survey and the demographics of your workplace, consider offering periodic screenings to

find specific health risks such as:

Blood Pressure Checks to identify workers with pre-hypertension or hypertension (elevated blood pressure)
Cholesterol Screenings for total, HDL (good cholesterol), LDL (bad cholesterol) and/or Triglycerides
Blood Sugar Screenings fasting or non-fasting to screen for possible diabetes
Body composition, such as body mass index (BMI) or body fat measures
Bone density for potential risk of osteoporosis
Cancer screenings such as, skin examinations, mammograms, or PSA screenings
Vision checks for glaucoma, or visual acuity
Other health screenings depending on your worker population and needs

Your local hospital, company physician practice, or health department may support assistance. Nevertheless, if you have workers you

may want to concentrate on programs that will keep them healthy rather than screening for early identification of chronic conditions.

The focus of your wellness program might be healthy lifestyle practices to lower risk and prevent disease.

In addition to the health screenings, consider offering a Health Risk Appraisal / Health Risk Assessment to all workers. The Health Risk

Appraisal / Health Risk Assessment will help to identify factors that may lead to additional risks, such as smoking history, stress

levels, image of health, family history, job satisfaction, support systems, and mental health. Often the evaluation results are included on

the Health Risk Appraisal / Health Risk Assessment, which supports a more comprehensive snap shot of health risks. The summary

results support the important information to plan appropriate interventions.

The key to the performance of screenings and Health Risk Appraisals / Health Risk Assessments (HRA’s) is the interventions or

follow-up programs. The data collected during the screenings increases awareness and often motivates workers to consider making

healthier changes. It’s the follow up interventions that support the critical support and assistance needed for workers to actually make

and maintain those changes. The interventions have the potential to include individual follow-up and ongoing counseling, individual or

group health coaching on the risk factors, behavior change programs, and/or company support. Examples include:

Naturally, this is for individual information only. Any follow-up interventions planned by the company would be based on interest

expressed by the employee.

Based on the results and your Worksite Wellness Program Committee goals and objectives you have the potential to plan the best

strategies for your company and workers. Consider the community resources available to support services, such as health

associations, hospitals, medical care providers, and/or public health agencies.

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